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verb

Glare v. t. To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light. "Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire."

Glare v. i. (past & past part. glared; pres. part. glaring)

To shine with a bright, dazzling light. "The cavern glares with new-admitted light."

To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. "And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon."

To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay. "She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring."

adjective

Glaring adj. Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime.

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Etymology of 'Glaring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glaring" Quotes from Famous Books

... argument was to be admitted, are they aware how far it, would carry them? To maintain that the existence of one being demonstrably proves the existence of an anterior being, would be, in fact, denying that any thing was self- existent. The fallacy of such a position is too glaring to ...

— The System of Nature, Vol. 2 • Baron D'Holbach

... parried the stroke with my musket, and he skipped back and entrenched himself behind the table. I own that I could have cheerfully slain him there and then but for my anxiety concerning Mistress Lucy's whereabouts. There was Vetch, glaring at me from behind the table, upon which, as I now saw, there were books and money, ...

— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang

... of these cartridges.'[32] This was certainly not due, as the Sepoys imagined, to any desire on the part of the British authorities to destroy caste or to prepare the way for the conversion of the Sepoys to Christianity. It was simply a glaring instance of the indifference, ignorance and incapacity too often shown by British administrators in dealing with beliefs and types of character wholly unlike their own. They were unable to realise that a belief which seemed to them so childish could have any depth, and they accordingly ...

— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... a pile of soft cushions, glaring malevolently at his Chief Minister, whom he hated ...

— The Elephant God • Gordon Casserly

... after the retirement of our crestfallen Cheon, hot cakes were served by a Cheon all rotundity and chuckles once more, but immediately afterwards, a snort of indignation riveted our attention on an exceedingly bristling, dignified Cheon, who was glaring across the enclosure at two of our neighbour's black-boys, one of whom was the bearer of a letter, and the other, of ...

— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn

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